STAT+: J&J’s CAR-T drug maintains strong efficacy in myeloma, shaded by neurotoxicity

More than three-quarters of the multiple myeloma patients treated with an experimental CAR-T therapy from Johnson & Johnson are alive at least one year without their cancer worsening, according to updated clinical trial results presented Saturday at the annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology.

Tumor responses to the J&J bespoke cell treatment were already known to be among the highest reported in multiple myeloma — stronger than a competing CAR-T from Bristol Myers Squibb and Bluebird Bio.

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